At 10:36 AM 7/10/2012, Lindsay Sprinter wrote:

Aother point, I believe some of these USB GSM modems on power up appears as a cdrom, a linux progam does exist that will switch the rest of the devices on, I have never used it though but it should not be to diffcult to find.

Newer kernels can do this switch automatically, IIRC. It's been a few years since I've configured a USB key, but this wasn't an issue on the kernel I was using at the time, the kernel was already able to handle the mode switch itself. I didn't need to run usb_modeswitch. I remember being a bit surprised that it "just worked". 73 de VK3JED / VK3IRL http://vkradio.com